26-Oct-06. Another lottery gamble. Globe and Mail, A20.

This editorial discusses the legal dispute between the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLGC) and 82-year old Bob Edmonds which was profiled in a CBC-TV Fifth Estate documentary. Edmonds claimed that he was defrauded in 2001 out of a winning lottery ticket by a variety store owner and was largely ignored by the OLGC until he went to police. The OLGC fought Edmonds until 2005 and settled with him just as a civil jury was about to pronounce on the case. The author states that the Ontario government should allow details of the settlement to be publicly available and notes that lottery fraud is not necessarily isolated to this single case.